Man in critical condition after crash

GRAND RAPIDS - A 57-year-old man was listed in critical condition Tuesday after he was hit by a pickup while blowing snow Monday evening.

The man was on a lawn tractor with a snow-blowing attachment when he backed out of his driveway in the 6000 block of Whitrock Avenue and onto the road at about 5:43 p.m. Monday to reposition the tractor to continue, according to a Grand Rapids Police Department crash report.

A Wisconsin Rapids man was driving a pickup with a snowplow on front of it down Whitrock Avenue and didn't see the Grand Rapids man on the tractor in the road, according to the report. The tractor had an amber strobe light on it, but the pickup driver did not see it, according to the report. The impact caused the tractor to overturn and the man to be thrown to the ground, according to the report.

An ambulance took the 57-year-old Grand Rapids man to Aspirus Riverview Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition Tuesday.